Daily Archive: Tuesday, December 2, 2014

(Trinidad Guardian) The Guardian School of Journalism will help the profession of journalism and the field of media in T&T says Norman Sabga, chairman of the ANSA McAL Group. He

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority today defended the operations of Exec Jet Club whose owner was held last week in Puerto Rico with US$620,000 aboard his private jet.

  Dr Gobind Ganga (left) receiving his instrument of appointment from President Donald Ramotar at the Office of the President today.

Based upon investigations conducted, at about 1130h. today, the police said they recovered two stolen motor vehicles at a residence at Hummingbird Street, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

At about 0950h. today, police say that two men armed with firearms held up the Postmistress and other staff members of the Post Office at Canterbury Walk, Beterverwagting, ECD.

The work of the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (NGMC) to collect and analyse production data of non-traditional agriculture crops in a timely manner received a significant boost as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday handed over four desktop computers to the entity.

Opposition Leader David Granger has formally written President Donald Ramotar telling him that there will be no talks with the government as long as Parliament remains prorogued.

KOROME, Kenya, (Reuters) – Somali al Shabaab militants killed at least 36 non-Muslim workers at a quarry in northeast Kenya today, beheading at least two of them in the same area that they hijacked a bus and killed 28 passengers just over a week ago.

A Corriverton man is now dead after a brutal beating at the hands of armed bandits, who invaded his family’s home and battered him and his elderly mother on Sunday night.

Guyanese pilot Khamraj Lall was yesterday released on a US$100,000 bond following an appearance in a court in Puerto Rico, where he was held just over a week ago after over US$620,000 in cash was found stashed in his private jet during a stop to refuel en route to Guyana.

A Linden dental technician was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with killing her goddaughter.

Less than two weeks after Dynamic Airways made its return to the local market, the carrier was yet again hit by a delay, this time due to a miscalculation which saw the plane veering off the runway.

Residents of the three East Bank Demerara villages that suffered massive flooding after a koker gave way in early October, are to receive material support as government has set aside $11 million to cater for this, but it might just be too little, too late.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday said that the ball is in the government’s court to end the parliamentary impasse following the prorogation of Parliament on November 10th by President Donald Ramotar and he issued a call for the administration to take the necessary steps, beyond writing a letter of invitation, if it is sincere about dialogue.

– Dwayne Smith takes 5-17 Barbados Pride all-rounder Dwayne Smith yesterday produced a Man-of-the-match bowling performance of 5-17 which inspired a stunning come-from-behind two-run win over the Guyana Jaguars who collapsed for 66 in their pursuit of a 69-run target.

A city businessman was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with unlawful possession of a gun and ammunition belonging to an associate, who police say is wanted in connection with human trafficking.

A Water Street vendor was yesterday placed on $40,000 bail after she denied charges of assaulting police officers and damage to property.

Mark Mohammed, who allegedly chopped 19-year-old Neeraj Michael and threw him overboard has been charged with murder and remanded to prison.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Left-arm spinner Nikita Miller’s seven-wicket haul broke Trinidad and Tobago Red Force’s spirit, and lifted Jamaica Franchise to a 38-run victory on the final day of their third round match here yesterday.

The family and friends of Asif Khatoon the Meten-Meer-Zorg fisherman who was beaten to death allegedly at the hands of police at the Leonora Police Station continued their protest yesterday in front of Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, along with several social activists.

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) on Friday suspended Magis-trate Alex Moore, following a complaint of inappropriate behaviour, during a hearing at the Sparen-daam Magistrate’s Court.

LIAT has added three additional flights between Barbados and Guyana and four new services per week between Dominica and St Maarten.

Two Liberian nationals are being accused of defrauding a Berbice businessman of over $10 million.

The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) said it has seen and is “totally disgusted” by a video on Facebook and other media made by a person or persons deliberately showing slum and neglected areas of Georgetown and dubbing the voice and image of Minister of Tourism, Irfaan Ali over the video.

Rim Kings registered a perfect record of four wins in four matches when the Mackeson King of the Rim 3×3 Basketball Challenge commenced on Sunday at the Independence Boulevard Basketball Court in Albouystown.

Abram Zuil Secondary School was labelled this year’s winner of the Sagicor Visionaries Nationals Final with its outstanding project titled ‘Paddy Husk Particle Board’.

By Jeff Trotman   The interest of the state is not necessarily the interest of people at the local government level and people have to rise to the challenge of ensuring good governance at that level to liberate themselves, Gecom Commis-sioner Vincent Alexander has said.

The music cart vendor who was stabbed to death last Friday at G City Electronics and Record Bar, Camp and D’Uurban streets, where he worked, is still unidentified as his employer said he did not know his name or where he lived; he was known only as ‘Dougla Boy’.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama made a forceful pledge yesterday to use his last two years in office to address the “simmering distrust” between police and minority communities as he requested $263 million for the federal response to the civil rights upheaval triggered in Ferguson, Missouri.

Guyana Jaguars Captain Vishaul Singh said that he knows his team will rebound from the stunning loss against Barbados yesterday and is confident that the players will quickly regroup for their fourth round match against Trinidad & Tobago.

An employee of Munesh-wers Limited is now a remanded prisoner after he was charged with stealing high priced liquor from a city supermarket on two separate occasions.

The woman who was struck down by a sand truck at Agricola Public Road succumbed to her injures two days later.

Some fishermen who operate at the Goed Fortuin Koker on the West Bank Demerara are accusing officers of the Maritime Administrative Department (MARAD) of harassment.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) yesterday blamed an electrical problem for the substandard supply to Central Georgetown in recent days.

Guyana’s Jason Yaw snared gold in the 400m final of the 22nd edition of the South American Youth Championships at the Estadio Pascual Guerrero in Cali, Colombia on Saturday en route to erasing the meet record.

Delwin Reid, accused of robbing an acquaintance of an iPhone in a knife-point hold-up, was yesterday remanded to prison although his lawyer claimed the victim was willing to accept compensation.

Dynas Ravens sent arch-rivals Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters packing from the third annual Phillip George Legacy tournament, clinching the must win preliminary round matchup 72-65 on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The national men’s 7s rugby team will begin their quest to capture their seventh North America and Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) championship tomorrow in Mexico.

Dear Editor, Attorney-at-Law Murseline Bacchus (‘There can be no allegation that an offence was committed by the AG that the police should investigate,’ SN November 27) takes us back to a case 184 years ago in feudal England to defend Attorney General Anil Nandlall against irresistible inferences of illegality from his infamous telephone conversation with Kaieteur News (KN) senior reporter Mr Leonard Gildarie.

Dear Editor,   On December 1, the Stabroek News editorial explained concerns about the most recent scandal involving Guyana’s government.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Tyrone Theophile struck an unbeaten half-century as Windward Islands Volcanoes broke their losing slump to beat Leeward Islands Hurricanes by nine wickets here yesterday.

Dear Editor, An online version of a newspaper published a report of the suspension of a magistrate by the Judicial Service Commission on the ground of alleged misconduct during the hearing of a case.

Alexander Village punched their ticket to the next round in dramatic fashion, edging group winners West Front Road 1-0 when the final group round in the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Georgetown leg concluded on Sunday.

LIMA (Reuters) – Falling oil prices show the “high risk” of fossil fuel investments compared with renewable energies, the UN’s climate chief said yesterday at the start of 190-nation talks on a deal to slow global warming.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – The Colombian general whose brief capture by Marxist FARC rebels prompted President Juan Manuel Santos to suspend peace talks resigned his from post yesterday, saying he should have taken more security precautions.

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board Selection Panel yesterday announced that Devon Smith has been selected to replace Christopher Gayle in the West Indies Test squad to South Africa.

CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan rights group says at least 41 inmates died in suspicious conditions last week, more than three times the official death toll authorities have blamed on overdoses.

Dear Editor, Moving around Guyana over the last several days to conduct a NACTA opinion poll on the current political situation, I have found few voters taking on the politicians of the three parliamentary parties.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists forced the temporary closure of government headquarters yesterday after clashing with police, defying orders to retreat after more than two months of sustained protests in the Chinese-controlled city.

(Trinidad Express) In-truders broke into the home of a couple at Chase Village, Chaguanas on Sunday night, stabbing to death the woman and wounding the man.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia  accused NATO yesterday of destabilizing northern Europe and the Baltics by carrying out drills there and announced new military exercises of its own, increasing tension over the Ukraine crisis.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The first cricket test between Australia and India will now take place in Adelaide as part of a major reshuffling of the series following the death last week of Australian batsman Phillip Hughes.

By Martin FeldsteinMartin Feldstein, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President Emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research, chaired President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984.

Dear Editor, Now that Guyana has registered its own day of infamy with the prorogation of Parliament, the opposition has been dealt a free hand, complete with aces.

(Reuters) – One of the world’s most wanted war criminals, the reputed top lieutenant of Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann, is presumed to have died at least four years ago in Syria, where he lived under government protection, a leading Nazi hunter said yesterday.

Tony Singh and Chris Etwaroo, who told a city court that they live in a market, were yesterday remanded to prison on a theft charge.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba will defend its socialist principles and will not return to capitalism just because it has agreed a detente with the United States, the daughter of President Raul Castro said, dispelling any notion that U.S.

DAKAR (Reuters) – Canadian candidate Michaelle Jean, a former governor general of Canada, was chosen as the next head of the international organisation of Francophone nations (OIF) at a summit in Senegal on Sunday, the OIF said in a statement.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday he would soon release new guidelines to limit racial profiling by federal law enforcement, a move long awaited by civil rights advocates.

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board yesterday advised that Sunil Narine had requested that he be permitted to take full responsibility for the rehabilitation of his bowling action.

BOSTON (Reuters) – The US Federal Bureau of Investigation warned US businesses that hackers have used malicious software to launch destructive attacks in the United States, following a devastating cyber attack last week at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Dear Editor, It is once again the time of the year when we all look forward to the season of caring and sharing.

New Amsterdam businessman Charles Bristol Henry, accused of fatally shooting another man during a dispute over property, was yesterday committed to stand trial for murder in the High Court.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Bayern Munich and Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer made the final three candidates for the FIFA Ballon D’Or award on Monday, joining former winners Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on the shortlist.

Dear Editor, Serpents’ eggs must be killed in the shell, said Shakespeare in Julius Caesar, and if dictatorship in the form of the executive presidency had been stopped when it was in embryo in 1980, the masses would not be feeling its ripple effects today.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – US officials have been in contact with Qatar’s government to ask them to allow a Los Angeles couple to return home after an appeals court threw out convictions linked to the death of their African-born adopted daughter, a State Department spokeswoman said yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday announced the schedule for warm-up matches before next year’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

It was interesting to learn about the Ministry of Education’s recent Drug Prevention Education Training forum through a news report in last Friday’s edition of this paper which stated, among other things, that the forum targeted “teachers and welfare officers from Georgetown.”

Dear Editor, After reading the Guyana newspapers for nearly 15 years I have come to the conclusion that Guyanese politicians, businesspeople and union leaders are lazy.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby has resigned from the board of trustees of Temple University, his alma mater said in a statement yesterday, after the entertainer was hit with a wave of sexual assault accusations.